Wasatch Soccer Sentinel
When Real Salt Lake sold Andres Gomez in August 2024, it was for a substantial sum — at least for this little MLS side — some $11m, though nobody will ever confirm real numbers for any of these things. Maybe it was more, maybe it was less.
Regardless, when that came, RSL went out and spent some of that money over the following months, bringing in players for not-insubstantial fees. Diogo Goncalves highlighted the list at an estimated $3m, but he’s joined by Dominic Marczuk at $1.5m, Lachlan Brook at some $450,000 and Willy Agada for $500,000 in allocation money (priceless) — again, these numbers are all sort of illusory, but illusory is the best we’ve got. Except Agada, I suppose, as that number comes straight from MLS, though allocation money is illusory on its own. I dunno, what do you expect in MLS?
Today, only one of those players remains at Real Salt Lake: Marczuk, who appears to be playing a right wing back role for this team in 2026.
Diogo Goncalves’ departure was announced today by means of a contract buyout, which frees the club from his age bill from a salary cap consideration. After 30 games for Real Salt Lake in 2025, he’s unceremoniously chopped from the squad. And you know? I get it — I don’t think he was a great fit, and the direction the club is going, he’s even less a good fit. There’s just no clear place for a player that’s not Diego Luna starting in the middle, though of course we ought to wonder what happens when Luna eventually leaves, likely after the World Cup.
